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Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 [1] [2]) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada.
Apr 25, 2014 · It would take investigators a week to identify the body as that of 30-year-old Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a principal in the American Indian Movement. AIM was the country’s most visible, and...
May 8, 2024 · Anna Mae Aquash was a Canadian-born Mi’kmaq Indian activist noted for her mysterious death by homicide shortly after her participation in a protest at Wounded Knee. Aquash was raised in poverty and, as a child, attended off-reservation schools.
Jul 3, 2018 · Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Indigenous activist, homicide victim (born 27 March 1945 in Shubenacadie, NS; died December 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota).
Feb 7, 2004 · Almost three decades after a member of the American Indian Movement, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, was shot as she begged for her life and prayed along a darkened cliff in the South Dakota...
Mar 24, 2024 · The 1975 killing of Aquash, a Nova Scotia-born Indigenous activist, sparked a decades-long legal battle and controversy. Her daughter and the daughter of the convicted killer, who wants to return to Canada, share their perspectives on the case.
Feb 3, 2004 · Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a young mother and American Indian activist, was shot in the head and left to die on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the winter of 1975.
